Yeah, but you have to get BOTH versions to get all the weapons. Glad I got my missile version on sale for $20. Although, this would make a great SOC, especially if they featured the damaged head with Daisaku inside (final eps).

RedAleseides Wrote:
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> Yeah, but you have to get BOTH versions to get all
> the weapons. Glad I got my missile version on sale
> for $20. Although, this would make a great SOC,
> especially if they featured the damaged head with
> Daisaku inside (final eps).

Don't worry. Now all you'll have to do is navigate a Japanese website and pay 3/4 the value of the toy for bonus parts. Bandai makes it so much easier.

MattAlt Wrote:
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> Forget what the next SOC SHOULD be, the next SOC
> is...
>
> Prototype Energer.
>
> It looks like a GX-07E without the head and chest
> pieces, and is only being sold as a mail-away
> premium through the upcoming Chogokin Tamashii
> Keikaku Z book.

I took a look at the SoC Prototype Energer. What a stupid toy. Maybe Bandai had a bunc h of defective toys are are selling them as a "prototype." What a great business plan! YOu can sell all your crap too, and call it some other version of the character....

I'm actually a fan of the Black Getter Ova version. To me, the SOC Getters aren't really SOC enough for me. The robots transformed in the anime, but not in the toy. That's what ruins it for me. But the Black Getter is different, because it is never shown transforming in the anime, so I wouldn't feel like I'm 'missing out' on any gimmicks.

The Revoltech Black Getter looked cool, but the paint job on the face looks a little too sloppy imho.

First off welcome to the board. Good to have more people. Second off some info for you to search with. Yamato took Studio Halfeye's Escaflowne and mass produced it years ago. You could dig that one up. Great engineering. It's damn fragile though. Also there already is a SIC KR Black/RX and bike.

Even though I'm aware that Yamato made a Chogokin Escaflowne toy 6 years ago, this information about them emulating the toy design from Half Studio Eye is definitely a suprising revelation.

I've tried to get toy on Ebay, but the price rate keeps fluctuating from 100$ to 200$ and that doesn't suit my budget at all. As where my feelings stand, I don't think that's a fair price from a toy like that b/c Yamato was undergoing a lot of growing pains & they've finally reached that peak of sufficeny with the value of their materials.

Which is what I can least say for Toynami but that's another story.

If Bandai's next ambitious endeavor to do the Escaflowne for next year and I hope they do...I rather have a SoC version than the Yamato one, but if the price rate weighs down the 3 whole digit mark, I might just get the darn toy anyway to see what it feels like. No matter the level of quality it contains, it's still a magnificent mecha to own.